Marcel Winatschek

The Sweetest Kind of Wrong

Muscles—Nick Rudd, out of Australia, responsible for some of the most cheerfully perverted synth-pop of the late 2000s—was doing exactly what he does best with Girl Crazy Go!: bouncy, slightly stupid, and somehow more charming for it. His whole project worked because it never pretended to be anything except what it was. Upbeat to the point of absurdity, with the energy of someone who found one specific frequency that made people happy and just stayed there.